Answer Me This!
Helen Zaltzman and Olly Mann host the award-winning podcast that's been answering the world's questions since 2007. New episodes fortnightly - keep us going by supporting us at patreon.com/answermethis. Visit our official site at answermethispodcast.com and buy classic episodes and albums at answermethisstore.com
Episodes
January 8, 2026 • 62 mins
How do you tell your parents you’ve been married for several years? Is bell-ringing a sport? What should you wear on a TV quiz show? How rich/soggy is Mr Darcy? And what species is a Womble? AMT413 questioneers want to know all these things and more.
For more information about this episode, visit answermethispodcast.com/episode413, and let us know your weird snack preferences too.
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December 11, 2025 • 22 mins
Hello! Here is this month's edition of Answer Us Back, full of your feedback on AMTs old and new - mostly pretty new. On today's menu:
Olly Mann himself has a change of heart about Elf On The Shelf since AMT392.
Laura found a variety pack of stock, as yearned for by Olly in AMT407 - although is two flavours enough to count as 'variety'?
Several people wrote in to chip in on AMT412's discussion of people with your s...
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November 27, 2025 • 62 mins
AMT412’s questioneers want to know why Innocent smoothies wear little woolly hats, how to increase someone’s spice tolerance, whether someone making you a mixtape is definitely a sign of romantic interest, and what to do about similarly-named strangers using your email address.
For more information about this episode, visit answermethispodcast.com/episode412
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November 13, 2025 • 23 mins
Wake up, babe - a new AMT feature just dropped! Midway through the interminable month between new episodes, we’ll be doing an Answer Us Back episode that’s all bits of feedback you send in about episodes old and new. Today we hear from:
Scott, on the lyrics of ‘Sweet Caroline’, first discussed in AMT365 in 2018;
Steve in San Diego, with some cool tiara trivia following our discussion of that headgear in AMT408;
Elo...
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October 30, 2025 • 56 mins
AMT411’s questioneers want to know whether snakes really are charmed, if people of Yore really slept sitting up, and what you should do when your mum finds out she’s the child of one of the most prolific sperm donors in history and wants to meet her hundreds of half-siblings.
For more information about this episode, visit answermethispodcast.com/episode411.
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September 26, 2025 • 61 mins
In a piggyback ride, who is the piggy? WHO IS THE PIGGY??? A questioneer simply must know! We also learn about cleaning swimming pools pre-chlorine, fruit wine in song lyrics, TV character crossovers, and telling fibs in a wedding speech.
For more information about this episode visit answermethispodcast.com/episode410.
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August 28, 2025 • 52 mins
Today’s questioneers want to know whether to hide bawdy home decor when kids visit, how one comes to own a cemetery, why cities are full of artist-decorated animals, whether you can eat slugs, what to do with three unwanted sets of boules, and what the most ordered item is from the enormous menu at Cheesecake Factory.
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July 31, 2025 • 62 mins
Today’s questioneers want to know, among other things, what private investigators actually do, what happened to Deely Boppers (Deely Bobbers?), how to greet your spouse when you’re attending the same business meeting, how to steer someone to not want to work for you, and how to persuade someone to GTFO of the massage chair at the airport that they’re not getting massaged in.
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June 26, 2025 • 65 mins
Today’s questioneers want to know why a coffee shop will have either good coffee or good chairs but not both, WTF Judi Dench’s voice is doing at Disney World, how to stop their coworkers pushing MLMs onto them, how to get their wife to like their malepolish, and why Phoebe from Friends would say lobsters mate for life when actually lobsters just want a quick hot fling and no commitment.
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May 29, 2025 • 58 mins
Why do Danes slice up the bride’s veil and the groom’s socks at a wedding? Is it OK to take pats of butter from a cafe? How/when do Popes learn Italian? And what happens if you drop your phone into the toilet at a festival? (Spoiler: nothing good.) Questioneers want to know all these things and more in AMT406.
For more information about this episode, visit answermethispodcast.com/episode406
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May 1, 2025 • 60 mins
It's one of those fantasy questions that gets batted around when "Who would you want at your fantasy dinner party?" has been wrung dry: what would you spend the money on if you won the lottery?
Except one questioneer has actually done it, and now they need to figure out what to spend the money on in a way that doesn't tip anyone off that they won the lottery.
Plus, questioneers want to know: what do pretzels mean, when did spor...
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March 27, 2025 • 59 mins
In AMT404, listeners want to know where to go to see the northern lights, why Jesus's official birthday and deathday aren't on the same calendar, and who is being weird: them, or their family? We also learn about sand heists, leaving your body to science/Disneyland, and werewolf menstruation.
For more information about this episode, visit answermethispodcast.com/episode404.
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February 27, 2025 • 62 mins
We've been making this show for a long time. We have had SO many questions about weddings. And yet, in AMT403, we get a whole fresh spin on the Wedding WTFery genre of question. Plus, questioneers ask about understudies' pay, popcorn's popularity, and who has to clear out your shed after you die.
For more information about this episode, visit answermethispodcast.com/episode403.
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January 30, 2025 • 64 mins
Can you bloody well believe it? New AMT in your ears in the year 2025?? Well, it's real! In AMT402, listeners ask about roller derby names, baked bean beans, shopping on planes, and the danger of bagpipes.
For more information about this episode, visit answermethispodcast.com/episode402.
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January 2, 2025 • 8 mins
Happy birthday to AMT, turning 18 years old today! Which means our baby is now an adult, and we are celebrating by....
🎉 BRINGING THE PODCAST BACK! 🎉
We're going to try it out with new monthly episodes on the last Thursday of the month, for the next three months.
So the show will return with AMT402 on 30 January 2025, 403 on 27 February, 404 on 27 March...
And after that? Well, if we're enjoying it, and you're enjoying it, we h...
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April 6, 2023 • 77 mins
Welcome back AMT for one special new episode! So much has changed since we retired nearly two years ago, but what remains is our desire to answer your questions. Today, questioneers wonder about what to say about working in a world-famous place, romantic bacon competitions, unromantic but important kebab competitions, Danielle Steel's sleeping habits, and looking at their own semen through a microscope. Find out more about this epi...
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August 5, 2021 • 86 mins
Well this is it, listeners. After 14 years and 8 months and many thousands of questions, AMT400 is the last episode of the show. But we go out on some terrific inquiries, about pigeon navigation, saving Joni Mitchell's childhood home/destroying Shakespeare's final home, the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes, diamond skulls, and eating brunch dangling 150 feet up in the air. Huge thanks to all of you who sent in lovely messages - and ...
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July 22, 2021 • 71 mins
For our very last retro AMT, we returned to a favourite from December 2011: AMT200, where we enlisted our families to answer your questions. And, well, it's a novelty not to be embarrassed just by our own past selves this time. This episode originally appeared at . Episodes 1-200 are available at , where you can also get our six special albums. Tweet us Facebook Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Hear Helen Zaltzman's podcasts The Allusio...
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July 1, 2021 • 61 mins
In AMT399, we find out about tuning church bells, cheetahs being given pet dogs, Olly getting lost in SeaWorld, how pickled onions inspired soft play, and which ways you might be most likely to be killed by a ball pit. We also have a Big Announcement ahead of episode 400. Find out more about this episode at . For more AMT stuff, head over to answermethisstore.com, where you can get our six special albums, AMT episodes 1-200, and ou...
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June 17, 2021 • 49 mins
We're settling a lot of couples' disputes in AMT398. Potato in tacos: Y/N? Did all animation used to be worse, or specifically just in Disney's straight to video sequels? And who's from the biggest village? Find out more about this episode at . For more AMT stuff, head over to answermethisstore.com, where you can get our six special albums, AMT episodes 1-200, and our Best Of compilations. Send us your questions for future episodes...
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